The decentralization principles will survive as long as the network aren't controlled by single pool
https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin and retails hold their own coins.
The market seems to react more to what BlackRock or a country's regulatory announcement says than to community developments or tech upgrades.
Question for everyone: Do you think crypto has fundamentally changed now that corporations and countries are major players? Is this good for adoption but bad for the original crypto ethos? Or is this exactly the kind of mainstream recognition the space always needed?
Because the community developments mostly don't give any affect to influence Bitcoin usage.
Few developments that influence the usage are multi-sig, native segwit, and taproot. The latest development was silent payments, but it's for privacy, most people doesn't care with privacy. Even cointelegraph didn't have any article about silent payments where they supposed publish any new thing about cryptocurrency.